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of the shore, of the sound and Long Island.
The city was beautifully decked for the oc-
casion, and besides the state officials a large
crowd was in attendance. In the parade
were all the prominent military organizations
Of the state, with Masons, Odd Fellows,
Knights and many other orders, including
German societies and the Fratellanza, an
Italian brotherhood.
The monument rises 110 feet from its base
to the apex of the Angel of Peace on the
summit; the shaft alone is 75 feet high and
the base l., the latter consisting of uniform
blocks of rough faced granite. At the four
corners of this base are four bronze statues,
feet high, representing History, Victory,
Patriotism and Prosperity. The statue top
ping the shaft is IL feet high. On the drum"
at the foot of the shaft are four beautiful
sculptures in relief, representing scenes in
the four great wars in which the United
States has been engaged; and around the
top of the base, below the drum" are the
names of the principal battles The Angel of
Peace on the summit is entirely the work of
the artist Doyle, who also designed the mon
ument. The tall shaft is but 10 feet in diam
eter at the base and tapers slightly to the
apex. The dedication was an occasion of
much interest and patriotic display
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wasbincton,s Negro Formulation.

The BARRIERS of Washington are almost uni
formly colored, and they constitute dill
gent, cleanly class. Perhaps the worst in
vasion has been the use of black boys for
newsdealers i'll the streets. They sell news
papers as their forefathers in Africa would
have assailed caravan. They espy
stranger a block or two away; rush upon
him and attempt to dispose of their wares by
force Yet, notwithstanding the large negro
population Of this city, which may be as high
as $4,000 to 60,0O0, it has its place in this
climate, is finding new avocations, and at a
recent exhibition of negro products I saw
there were colored cabinetmakers, wagon
makers, carriage builders, blacksmiths, tail
ors, etc. From this city go great detach-
ments of colored servants to the summer
hotels ali over the land. Indeed, the negroes
of Washington and Baltimore may be COM
pared to the Swiss, vino keep most Of the
hotels in Europe, and make the best walters
-Gath'S Letter,
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would have cut no figure in those days.
Girdles were conspicuous adjuncts Of
the toilets in the Middle Ages, and
were often made Of the costliest mate
rials. Gold and precious stones orna-
mented them when they belonged to per-
sons of high rank. Girdles are "in" now.
Tea gowns have ribbon ones, and they are
strung ON every possible gown. Bernhardt's
Roman costumes in "Theodora" have given
them popularity. Girdles were worn low in
the Twelfth century. The form of the girdle
indicated the subjugation Of woman. II it
encircled the waist and had piece depend
ing therefrom, it signiied that the wearer
was bound to a man who had the right to
lead her about at will.
In the earlier Middle Ages they never
pinched their waists. During the Eighth
and Ninth centuries they wore loosely fitting
robes which concealed the figure In the
lower Roman empire the classic costume pre-
vailed
Classic waists were never small And to-
day, among some Of the more intellectual
women, there is tendency to return to
the "big classic waist" and abjure the corset
altogether. Poets are to blame for keeping
up the interest in slim waists. They are al
wa-- rhyming about them. Even Tennyson
in he Miller's Daughter" says:
And would be the girdle
Round her dainty, dainty waist.
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Second in world-Wylam T. Hackworth and T.
Walters. 1911. r. Travitbcz patent. 1902. Wy
lam and Lanington railway, 1911. drawing Of
train with huntsmen and hounds)
Third in word-Wylam, Timothy Hackworth
and ]. Foster, 1912. Two cylinder locomotives
train sixteen cars coal, a chaldron coal in each
A number locomotives built at Wylam railway.
This established locomotives. Wylam and Lam
ington railway, 1912.
FOURTH. Blenkensop patent 1911. Rack rail
and engine. Middleton, near Leeds. Messrs Fen
ton, Wood, Murry & Jackson, builders, Leeds. A
number of these locomotives used on Middleton
and Leeds railway and Kenten and Fawdown Col
liery railway, 1912 and 1919. Aug. 12 1872 They
continued for many years to be one of the princi-
pal curiosities of the day. -,.-
Mr. Matthew then sketches the Stone
bridge Lion, crossing the west branch of the
Lackawaxen river, on the Delaware and
Hudson Canal company's road, Honesdale,
Pa. OF it he says: 'Stonebridge Lion. H.
Allen, all alone, crossing river, Aug. s, 1929;
short run of few miles, and then abandoned;
no further use of locomotive on railroad; To-
comotive housed for many years"
Next comes the locomotive Tom Thumb,
which was run by Peter Cooper and party on
the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, Aug %,
1880
Peter Cooper, locomotive and party at Relay
house, on Baltimore and Ohio railroad Aug. %,
1880. Peter abandons his locomotive engine, and
horses run the road to Ellcott Mill, on Baltimore
and Ohio railroad, Md.
He then gives ''The first passenger train
hauled on railroad in America, Charleston
and Hamburg railroad S. c. The locomo-
tive Best Friend, speed thirty to thirty five
miles an hour, November /, 1880. J. D.
Petech, NJ. NJ, N. w. Darrell, engineer.
June II, 1881, exploded boiler. Nov. 3,
wheels gave out"
His picture bears in addition this inscrip-
ton: "Drew this picture on 55th anniversary
of exhibiting of Best Friend by me at West
Point foundry (where she was buil0.f
The "Best Friend" and "West Point" also
run ON the Central and Hudson River railroad,
were the two first engines made in America.
They were built, the first for E. L. Miller, and
the second for H. Allen, at the West Point
foundry shops New York CITY
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was brisk whole sail breeze and
everything was favorable for q good
test. OF the six races in which the
Genesta participated only four can be re-
garded as affording fair opportunity for
comparing the speed of the two boats. In
one of these the Thistle beat the Genesta 10
minutes. in another 25 minutes, and in an
other 10 minutes 40 seconds. while in one the
Genesta beat the Thistle minutes 81 seconds.
In these four races, then, the Thistle proved
herself to be on an average 10 minutes IL
seconds faster than the Genesta Even
if the races of May 90 and 80 be in
cluded, which would be manifestly unfair
for purposes of comparison, the average
speed of the Scotch cutter is only
II minutes II seconds greater than that of
the English one. A fair idea of the difference
between the speed of the Puritan and
Mayfower may be obtained from the time
made by them in the trial races of 1886. In
the first of these contests Gen. Paines hand
some craft covered the course 3 minutes 81
seconds quicker than the Puritan, and in the
second minutes Al seconds quicker, and
altogether showed herself to be A minutes 40
seconds faster on the average. II, then, the
Puritan is 9 minutes % seconds faster than
the Genesta, and the Mayfower is minutes
40 seconds faster than the Puritan, it is the
easiest sort of mathematics to add these
figures together and thereby show that the
Mayfiower is IA minutes 8 seconds faster than
the Genesta which has already been shown to
be only 10 minutes IL seconds slower than the
Thistle. If this reasoning is approximately
correct last years successful Americas cup
defender is nearly minutes faster than this
years challenger, and may safely be relied
upon to save it again.
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The next sketch gives the Hudson river at
Albany, with a packet boat bringing the
passengers for the railroad, which is traced
up the inclined plane west.
The old engineer then depicts Schenectady
as the birthplace of many improvements in
railroads and locomotives, and the head of
West Plain, one mile from that city, as the
spot where the Iirst English built engine was
put Oh track and drew train of cars on the
American continent. That locomotive was
called Robert Fulton and was afterward
changed to John Bull, while she was Ameri-
canized by putting forward trucks under her.
The improvements mentioned are: Circu-
lar engine house; large geared turn table;
hot water reservoir, increasing locomotive
capacity; system of fitting wheels and axles
to gauges and putting them on by pressure
without keys and seals. "See pioneer hand
cars, first used by the inventor and his ap-
prentices to run to trout brooks and hunting
grounds on the line Of the railroad then
adopted for the purpose of running dispatches
before the day of telegraphs, and for the use
Of road hands. See housing of locomotives,
steam connections for pumps to protect them
from freezing, and to make water from snow.
See locomotive snow plows with side wings,
and series of scrapers and spring poles to
clean track of snow and ice"
See note on snow plow. Not until 1896 was a
snow piow constructed and successfully intro
duced on the Utica and Schenectady railroad.
drawing of it was procured and taken to Austria
by the chief engineer Of the Vienna railroad in
the spring Of 1887. A full description of it was
sent to the Russian and Prussian governments by
Chevalier Van Gousner, the engineer of the St.
Petersburg railroad. model WAS prepared at
the order Of Col. Melenkoff Of the Russian Engi-
neer Corps, and one was ordered by the king Of
Prussia through the minister at Washington,
and one for the emperor of Austria by one of the
professors in Union college at Schenectady. All
of which were forwarded by David Matthew, the
inventor and interduser and chiefe locomotive en-
gineer and machienus of the Utica and Schenec-
fadv railroad
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forty-flve mile race Of Harwich on May 80
was another huke, the fog being SO dense that
the yachts were unable to find the turning
buoys. The Thistle was defeated on this
occasion, the Genesta getting home II
minutes ahead of her and the Irex
beating both. The first fair trial the cup
challenger had was on May 81 from Harwich
to Southend, and then she finished first and
beat the Genesta ten minutes. The day was
a splendid one for sailing, the wind blowing
steadily from the east and the sea being
smooth. 1t was one of the fastest races ever
sailed over the course, the winning boat COW
ering the forty-five miles in 5h, I'm. and
19s. On the next day the same easterly wind
and generally favorable conditions prevailed
and the Thistle led the racing fleet over
the Thames fifty mile course, from Lower
Hope to Mouse lightship and return, this time
finishing twenty-five minutes before the Ge-
nesta. Sir Richard Suttons boat was called
back for crossing the line before the starting
gun was fired for the run over the Thames
course on June and stayed out of the race
but she was on hand June 4, when the course
was from the More to Dover and beat the
Thistle Am. "a sec. In her last race,
over forty-four mile triangular course off
Dover on June &, the Scotch flyer again made
a good showing and finished 10 minutes
49 seconds ahead OF the Genesta. There
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Frederick Douglass in Rome.

With that admirable conscience so charac-
teristic of the foreign press Milan paper
says of Frederick Douglass: "There is at the
present time in FEDERICO Douglass, the rebel
slave, the author, the celebrated orator, the
United States senator, the man perhaps the
most popular of his country on account of his
daring, his tenacity, and of the trials he has
suffered" 1t is evident that the Italian bioe-
raphers of the great Douglass are somewhat
unfamiliar with the newspaper files of the
United States.-New York World.
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DEALERS IN PETROLEUM.
The New York Consolidated Stock and
Petroleum Exchange.

The New York Consolidated Stock and
Petroleum Exchange.
The rapid growth of New York city's busi-
ness has created a new organization known
as the Consolidated Stock and Petroleum ex-
change, which is erecting a magnificent
structure at the corner of Exchange place
and Broadway, and bids fair to soon rival
the old and noted stock exchange. The new
body now has 2, 403 members, and seats worth
$500 six months ago are now held at $1,000,
with rising tendency In 1856 the building
company was organized and the managers
promise to have the building ready for Occu-
pancy next fall. 1t has frontage on Broad
way of 80 feet II inches, on Exchange place
of 1872 feet 4 inches and on New street of 81 feet
inches. 1t has basement story of Is feet,
a main story of sc feet for the exchange, and
above that four stories for offices, of which
there are to be 120, to be reached both by ele
vators and large stairways, without going
through the exchange. All the offices and
rooms will be lighted from an interior court
yard, and will be handsomely furnished in
hard wood, the interiors of light colors.
There will be fine restaurant in the base
ment and all the rooms will be heated by
steam.
The new exchange is the result of consoi
dation. The New York Mining Stock ex-
change was organized in 1875 and has sue
cessively absorbed the National Petroleum
exchange, the Miscellaneous Security
board, the American Mining board
and the New York Petroleum and Stock
board-the result being the present powerful
Consolidated Stock and Petroleum exchange.
1t has ali the dash and vigor of young and
growing body, and ON several recent days
more shares Of Reading stock were traded in
on the Consolidated than on the old stock
exchange. But the growth Of business vii
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first Australia tour was begun in 1882. He
married Louise Davenport. In 1880, when
he went to England with "The Danites,"
Mamie Sheridan accompanied him, though
not to play Among the victims Of the
Metis, which sunk in Long Island sound, was
the girl born to Sarah Hayes, Sheridan's first
wife, Boston girl. Mamie Sheridan was
also at one time his wife.
Sheridan, in "The Dukes Motto" was also
very successful, and critics say some Of his
best work was as the dialect Italian in "Our
Boarding House," which he first undertook
with Robson and Crane in New York
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"Oh. Why should the Spirit OF Mortal
be Proud.''

The following beautiful and unique little
poem was one that always charmed Mr.. Lin coin.
The philosophy and sentiment 1t contains
touched responsive chord in his breast
Oh why should the spirit of mortal be proud
Like "A swift-heeting m eteor, fast-hying cloud,
A flash of the lghtuing, break of the wave
Man passes from life TO his rest in the grave.
The leaves of the oak and the willow shall fade,
Be scattered around and together be laid
And the young and the old, and the low and the
high,
Shall molder to dust, and together shall lie.
The infant mother attended and loved
The mother that infants affection who proved,
The husband that mother and infant who blest
Each-all are away to their dwellings OF rest.
The maid on whose cheek, whose brow, in
whose eye,
Shone beauty and pIeasure-her triumphs are by;
And the memory Of those who beloved her and
praised
Are alike from the minds of the living erased.
The hand of the King that the sceptre bath
horne.
The brow Of the priest that the mter hath worn,
The eye of the sage, and the heart OF the brave,
Are hidden and lost in the depth of the grave.
The peasant whose lot was to SOW and to reap.
The herdsman who climbed with his goats up
the steep,
The begsar that wandered in search of his
bread,
Have faded away like the grass that we tread.
The saint who enjoyed the communion of
Heaven,
The sinner who dared to remain unforgiven.
The wise and the foolish, the guilty and just,
Have quietly mingled their bones In the dust.
30 the multitude goes-like the flower OF the
weed,
That withers away to let others succeed;
SO the multitude comes-even those we behold,
To repeat every tale that has often been told.
For we are the same our fathers have been;
We see the same sights our fathers have seen;
We drink the same stream and view the same
sun,
And run the same course oar fathers have run
The thoughts we are thinking our fathers would
think;
From the death we are shrinking our fathers
would shrink
To the life we are clinging they also would
cling
But it speeds for us all like bird on the wing.
They loved-but the story cannot unfold;
They scorned-but the heart of the naughty is
cold;
They gazed-but the tongue of their gladness is
dumb.
They died-aye they died and the things that
now,
Who make in their dwelling a transient abode,
Meet the things they met on their pilgrimage
road.
Yea! hope and dependence. pleasure and pain,
We mingle together in sunshine and rain;
And the smiles and the tears the song and the
dirge, - xH
Still follow each other like surge upon surge.
IT'S the wink of an eye, 'tis the draught of a
breath,
From the blossom of health to the paleness of
death,
From the gilded salon TO the bier and the
shroud-
All, why should the spirit Of mortal be proud?
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THE BOW.


yacht will draw about thirty feet with it
down.
Though the Atlantic's bow lines were called
straight, these lines of Gen. Paines boat are
Straighter. To the eye the lines are as sharp
as the letter V. Abaft the shoulders, how
ever, she has more concavity than any Of the
other yachts. But the inward curve begins
far below the water line. This method af-
fords great beam at and for several feet below
the water line, reduces the aggregate displace-
ment and places the ballast carrying area
much farther down than it has ever been
placed before in the sloop or beamy style of
boat. Great increase of speed is expected
from economy Of displacement, increase Of
stability and hence more sail carrying power.
Her dimensions in comparison with those
of the other big sloops is shown by the fow-
lowing table:
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Plantation Philosophy.

/ b'lebe dat eff wuz on er race hoss an had
two hours de start, debt could jump on er
cow an obertake me. / doan un'erstan' how
it is dat some folks dat amt got half de sense
nur nigh de Judgment dat is ken run right
erlong outen debt, while de cut throat mort
gage has allus got its bad eye on my crap.
uster low dat it wuz 'caze was too homes,
but sence kotch mersef wushin' dat l had
Mr. So-an'-Sos farm, widout stoppin' to think
whut would come O. Mr.. So-an'Sos chillun,
Use sorter come ter de 'clusion dat ef goes
ter de po'house it won't be my honesty dat
takes me dar. You'll fin mo- honesty 'mung
well-ter-do folks den yer will 'mung people
dat has ter lib frum ham ter mouf. Arkansas
Traveller.
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Puzzled Sign Painters.

The term &c" and its Latin equivalent
"etc." are great stumbling blocks to the illit-
crate sign painter. A Swan street sign reads:
"Groceries, provisions and &C." Another
east side sign has it "&tc." Still other forms
noted by the "Arounder" in his perambula-
tions are "and Etc." "& soforth !" @Et &c.n
A Black Rock man, who believes in giving
his customers their choice from large stock,
hangs out the sign: "Dry goods, Et Cetera,
ETC., &c."-Buffalo Courier.
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teenth century said
bodies took t IA 9
shape represented
by the accompany
ing picture of Cath
crime de Medicis.
If some of us had
been on hand would
we not have said:
"rake any shape
but that." Thens
as now, male wit
lings expende ed
their humor upon
these L" whalebone
prisons" In tn 9
light of the present
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Up the River.

Visitor Ito convict in penitentiary)-Ar
you undergoing punishment for your first
offensea
Convict mot without pride)-No, sir; I've
been up sever1 times afore.
Visitor-Ah. Then your career must have
been very checkered one!
Convict-No, my career has been a very
striped one.-New York Sun.
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satile genluSes OF
the profession, and
supported John T.
Raymond as a COM
edian (; did hi G b
comedy with Julia
Dean Hayne, and
was at various s
times leading man
for stars so divers
ant as Lucille West
ern, Ch a RI o tt g
I h o m pson and
Adele Belgrade.
He began his star
ring career in Hal
flax in 1879. His
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Another Destroyer.

The British have still another torpedo boat
launched, boat supposed to unite in the
highest degree the qualities Of speed and de-
structiveness 1t is known as the Fake (the
name of class, not of one boat, and has
made the extraordinary speed of twenty-six
and one-half miles an hour, carrying load
of fifteen tons, and maintaining that speed
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*We don't see you very often at the club,
Charley"
"No; the fact is I'm engaged and can't
call an evening my own"
"Going to leave the club, thenl"
GOh, no; shall be married in April, and
then you may look for me at least three times
q week. Philadelphia Call.
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been photograph
ed, and show every
style, from the first
crude specimen to
t b Q magnificent
iron horse of to-
day. The sketches
a re interspersed
with quaint de-
scriptive matter.
"drawn at San
Francisco. Cal,
July, 1856" as Mr..
Matthew says, "for
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Montana Justice.

Montana Judge-Wnat Is be charged with.
Corstable-Holdin' that his shootin' iron
counted in flush.
Judge-Drinks for the crowd Nextl
Constable-This here chap calls hissef No
Cosky Butt, and says ''daypo" an ither an
ni-ther.
Judge-Two hours ter git outer tn
county. Washington Critic.
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Feminine DiDlomacv.

81 can't understand. my dear, why it is that
you, who have such an excellent man for a
husband, should quarrel with him so often"
Don't you? Well, it is because he always
brings me home present at night to make
up. Seeg'-French Fun.
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Got Away Safe.

Bunko Steerer-Isn't this Mr.. Smith, Of
Smithville!
Stranger-No; I'm Mr.. Keely, of Phila-
delphla-
Bunko steerer moves off in great haste
New York Sun.
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He, She and 1t.

She parrot in one hand, dog in the other)
Yes, Edward, we've got everything, be-
lieve-but, where's the baby!
He-Why, gave it to you.
She-I know; and I gave it back to you.
He-Well, by thunderl if haven't glne
and left it in the parlor car.-Exchanga
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Fake TORPEDO BOAT.

for two hours The boat is 135 feet long,
with fourteen feet breadth Of beam, and its
steering capacities are SO perfect that it went
around circle with diameter of 100 yards.
The boiler is capable of developing / 600 horse
power, and there are six engines-one for
driving the boat, two for COMPRISING the air
for the torpedoes, one for the dynamo that
gives the electric light, one for forcing air,
and one to be run with the distilling appara-
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The first wealth is health. Sickness is
poor spirited; it must husband its resources
in order to live. But health answers it own
ends, and has to spare; runs over and inun-
dates the creeks and neighborhoods Of other
mems necessity AxE
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SECTIONAL VIEW,

tus for supplying drinking water There are
three guns on deck and tower carrying two
torpedo guns, which can b tained to any
angle and turned toward ny point by re-
volving the tower. The forward uart Of the
boat is thoroughly protecte, bv = turtle
back" within which are gooo O "a 'cers for
the crew. Altogether the sF;l !, Is ne adds
some very worthy members TO set Of
scientific destroyers now ahoat